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The Jet Aircraft Museum, London Ontario Volume 44 March 2010 Number 6 http://www.cahs.ca/chapters/toronto. Canadian Aviation Historical Society This meeting is jointly sponsored by CAHS Toronto Chapter Meeting Toronto Chapter and the Toronto Aerospace March 14, 2009 Museum- All CAHS / TAM members, guests Meeting starts at 1 PM and the public (museum admission payable) are -Under the Glider- welcome to attend. Toronto Aerospace Museum, 65 Carl Hall Refreshments will be served Road, Toronto “Landing Fee” of $2.00 will be charged to cover meeting expenses Next Month’s Meeting April 11, 2010 Dinner Meeting - Armour Heights Officers Mess Bar Opens 5:30 PM Dinner at 6:30 PM Last Month’s Meeting ..........................................................2 This Month:"The Jet Aircraft Museum, London Ontario" Speaker: Rick Hammond Photo: "C-FUPP CT-133" Photo Credit - Kevin Moore 1 Flypast V. 44 No. 6 Last Month’s Meeting photographing aircraft in the late 1940s, has February Meeting amassed more than 500,000 negatives. Eric’s Topic: Eric Dumigan --- “Aviation Photo main passion is aviation photography and during Journalist” the summer months he follows the airshow Speaker: Eric Dumigan circuit in Ontario and the northeastern states. Reporter: Gord McNulty For the past twenty years Eric has freelanced for several Canadian, American, French and CAHS Toronto Chapter 1st Vice-President British aviation magazines. He has published George Topple introduced well-known aviation more than 200 articles and 1,500 photos as well photo journalist Eric Dumigan, widely respected as displaying photos in several aviation for his exceptional photographs and website, magazines --- including COPA Flight and www.airic.ca Eric was born in Montreal, Quebec, Canadian Aviator --- and businesses. Eric enjoys in 1964 and moved to Toronto in 1966. He photographing everything from weddings to currently resides east of Toronto in the small wildlife. He is a Certified Photographic town of Brooklin with his wife, Bernadette. His Consultant with the Society of Photographic father, Richard, and his grandfather were both Consultants and is also a member of the Society avid photographers. Eric began taking photos of Photographic Consultants. Eric works for and developing film and prints at nine years of Canada’s largest photo finishing company as a age and he accompanied his father on visits to Minilab Support & Quality Analyst. airports and airshows. Richard, who began The Dumigan family was well represented at Flypast V. 44 No. 6 2 the meeting. Richard attended along with the Mynarski Memorial Lancaster at the Bernadette. Fellow aviation photographers Parr Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum. The Yonemoto and Gus Curujo also attended, initial success motivated him to intensify his underlining the widespread acclaim that Eric has hobby. A full 20 years later, Eric did an air-to-air earned for his outstanding photography. Eric shoot of the same Lancaster. Calling it “a dream presented a wide-ranging slide show that come true,” Eric took the shots from the back of illustrated the broad scope and high calibre of his the CWHM B-25 Mitchell. The occasion was the work. Some of his earliest photos were taken at museum’s annual Flyfest in June. A Spitfire and the Toronto Island Airport, where he would take a Hurricane from Vintage Wings of Canada pictures of visiting participants in the CNE Air based in Gatineau, Quebec, joined in for a Show like Art Scholl of Super Chipmunk fame. spectacular flight. Eric has done considerable In those days, there was considerably more flying with Vintage Wings, not only over access to the aircraft as security wasn’t the issue Gatineau but also over Geneseo, NY, site of an that it is for photographers today. Much of Eric’s annual warbirds airshow held by the 1941 early photography took place in and around Historical Aircraft Group Museum. He presented Toronto, where he was quick to capture special fine shots of the Vintage Wings Kittyhawk over aircraft like the Sikorsky Skycrane that was used the Parliament Buildings last September and also in the construction of the CN Tower. Toronto is the Canadian Forces Skyhawks parachute team still a focus. For example, with the help of YYZ over Gatineau. The Skyhawks were taken from Airport Watch, Eric took photos of the first a Buffalo. Eric, strapped into a full-body harness Airbus A380 landing at Toronto last year. by two technicians, took the pictures from the Eric’s father still enjoys taking pictures. He back ramp of the aircraft. It wasn’t for the faint likes to attend events such as the annual Orillia of heart! Eric uses continuous focus and Aviation seaplane fly-in at Lake St. John when continuous motor drive to get his incredible he can, continuing a long tradition. Eric’s shots. For example, he got eight frames per grandfather also took the occasional shot of second to capture the jumpers as they left the aircraft and once captured the R-100 dirigible Buffalo. when it came to St. Hubert, Quebec in 1930. The replica First World War aircraft of the Some of the shots taken by Eric’s father included Brampton-based Great War Flying Museum are the landing of the first Comet airliner in Canada, prominent in Eric’s photos. He has flown with in BOAC colours, at Dorval airport. Richard was the GWFM on several occasions and showed excited about the development of the Avro nice photos of GWFM aircraft in a simulated Arrow in the late 1950s and followed the flight Dawn Patrol flight at Geneseo, starting at 6:30 tests at Malton from the end of the runway. His a.m. Air-to-air photography is always tricky. photos included a shot of the first Arrow, RL201, Aircraft are constantly moving up, down and making its first landing and the second Arrow, around, and the wind factors in. Also prominent RL202, taking off. Other especially noteworthy are the Second World War warbirds of the Ed photos by Richard included a BOAC Russell Group in Niagara Falls. Eric captured Stratocruiser taking off at Dorval, and an Russell’s Messerschmitt BF-109E, a Spitfire, and American Airlines Boeing 707 at Malton, taken a Hurricane together in a dramatic formation. In from the parking lot of the old Terminal One. addition, he has done fine air-to-air photography In 1988, a photo of Eric’s was published for with the Canadian Harvard Aircraft Association the first time. It was a shot of the first flight of based in Tillsonburg; Canadian wing walker 3 Flypast V. 44 No. 6 Carol Pilon in a Stearman flown by aerobatic Geneseo, for example. He also obtained fine pilot Rob Holland; and more. shots of the Battle of Britain Flight in September, Eric’s favourite air-to-air situation is a over Ottawa, featuring the Lancaster with two dedicated shoot, where he gets to call the shots as Spitfires and two Hurricanes from Vintage opposed to being part of a group of airshow Wings and Russell Group. Shooting aircraft with photographers who have already arranged the landmarks in the background is challenging too. formations with organizers. In a dedicated shoot, Intermittent cloud can spoil the best plans. Eric will do a thorough briefing on the ground, Nevertheless, Eric took excellent shots of the determining the call frequencies, altitudes that vintage Bellanca Pacemaker/Skyrocket hybrid will be flown, certain backgrounds that will be “Miss Veedol II” flying over the Toronto skyline planned, and so on. However, Eric noted the and the CN Tower when it made an appearance flying seldom goes as planned. It is, he said, “a at the CNE air show in 2005. A Stearman Junior frustrating kind of photography,” in that the Speedmail, in a flight to celebrate the first U.S. photographer can’t move the aircraft to be air mail delivery in the U.S., made a beautiful exactly where he wants them to be. The best picture over Niagara although the skies were shots happen only when the pilots put aircraft cloudy when they were over the falls. Last precisely in the desired spot. Once he gets spring, Eric enjoyed shooting an informal airborne, Eric always tells the pilot to go straight formation of Van’s RV-series homebuilts. Each and level. He likes to take photos with the sun of the four pilots did a great job of holding their shining on the aircraft from a three-quarters front aircraft straight and level. view. If three or four aircraft are involved, the Eric has flown in a wide variety of “photo risk increases and Eric emphasizes the need for ships,” including various Cessnas, Harvards, a all pilots to be really comfortable before they do Stearman, a Globe Swift, a Yak-52, a Tiger any turns or manoeuvres. Once the formation is Moth, a Beech 18, B-25 Mitchells, the Buffalo, done, Eric likes to do an outside bank, where the and others. A luxurious Beech Bonanza was by aircraft that are the subject of the shoot break far the most comfortable. Shooting from away from the photographer’s aircraft for a nice Cessnas, he likes to remove the door. “I don’t angle. Safety is always paramount. Eric acts as a think my wife really realized what they meant lookout for his pilot and if he sees any hint of until she saw me sitting in an open doorway at anything going wrong, or someone coming too 3,000 feet over Orangeville,” Eric said. He also close, he will immediately tell his pilot to “break, tries to remove window glass if possible. break, break!” Eric noted that pilots have Shooting through any kind of plexiglass is okay different flying characteristics and personalities. but it can produce distortion.
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